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Subject: AMAZONS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMAZONS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON            Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the rookery of women
Subject(s): Amazons; Breast Cancer; Women


AMAZONS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the rookery of women
Last Line: Had already written this poem
Subject(s): Amazons; Cancer, Breast; Women


FIELDWORK, by BOB HICOK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are two kinds of people and five hundred
Last Line: The jealous eyes of god have seen?
Subject(s): Amazons; Beetles; Insects; Jungles; Wilderness; Bugs


FIELDWORK, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are two kinds of people and five hundred
Last Line: A fraction and flutter of life not even %the jealous eyes of god have seen?
Subject(s): Amazons; Beetles; Insects; Jungles; Wilderness


ON KEEPING ONE'S HEAD, by CHARLES L. GROVE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Head-hunters of the amazon
Last Line: Not weirdly ornamental, %like a halloween punkin.)
Subject(s): Amazons; Heads; Hunting


SONG OF THE GREEK AMAZON, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I buckle to my slender side
Last Line: As the fierce shout of victory.
Subject(s): Amazons


THE AMAZON, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now in the brake the burning footprints / stare
Last Line: In one white shroud?
Subject(s): Amazons; Nature


THE AMAZON (COPY OF A STATUE BY POLYCLITUS OF ARGOS, 5TH CENTURY B.C.), by FRANK ERNEST HILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This marble is a dream of woman grown
Last Line: Her body into growth, but not her wit!
Subject(s): Amazons; Statues; Women


THE DASHING WHITE SERGEANT, by JOHN BURGOYNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I had a beau
Last Line: As a dashing white sergeant, I'd march away!
Subject(s): Amazons; Courage; Soldiers; Victory; War; Valor; Bravery


THE ROUT OF THE AMAZONS; AT LAOMEDON'S UPPER FOLD, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ahi, ahi, ahi, laomedon!
Last Line: So let us get to bed and pray for him.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Amazons


THE WHITE WOMEN, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where dwell the lovely, wild white women folk
Last Line: And gazing died.
Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos
Subject(s): Amazons; Legends, Malayan; Women's Rights; Feminism